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Cahill: The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. Hardcover

Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. Hardcover. ca. 28 x 21 cm Cahill xi, 187 pages, with notes, bibliography, index and with many illustrations. Cahill blasts conventional notions of the elevated and disinterested scholar-artist in Chinese history. He studies the social and commercial context of art from the 16th century onward and the implications of that context for our understanding of traditional Chinese art. The book is based on an expansion of four lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1991. 0231081804

Calhoun: Neither Gods Nor Emperors. Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China

Neither Gods Nor Emperors. Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China Craig Calhoun 333 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography and index. 1997 0520211618

Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. New edition. By Brian Hook. Cloth

Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. (2nd edition) Edited by Brian Hook, Denis Twitchett 502 pages, illustrated with 41 maps, glossary and index. 1991. It provides an absorbing and authoritative account of China and all things Chinese, from ancient times through to the momentous events of the past decade. Thoroughly revised and updated to take full account of the most recent developments in China, from the economic reforms and increased freedoms of the early 1980s to the crisis of 1989 and its aftermath. 9780521355940, 052135594x-5075oq

Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Hardback

Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Hardback by Michael Loewe, Edward L. Shaughnessy, editors 1180 pages, with 144 line diagrams, 78 half-tones, 18 tables. 1999 9780521470308, 0521470307-2961170 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 01: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 211 BC - AD 220. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 01: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 211 BC - AD 220. Hardback Edited by Denis Twitchett, Michael Loewe 1023 pages, with 18 tables, 17 maps, Official titles and institutional terms, Han weights and measures, Han emperors, with glossary-index, bibliography. 1986 9780521243278, 0521243270-125180 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 03: Sui and T'ang China, 589-906. Part 1. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 03: Sui and T'ang China, 589-906. Part 1. Hardback Edited by Denis C. Twitchett 870 pages, with 11 tables, 22 maps, glossary-index. 1979 9780521214469, 0521214467-125180 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 06: Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 06: Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Hardback edited by Denis C. Twitchett, Herbert Franke 816 pages, with 8 tables, 37 maps, 6 figures, glossary-index, bibliography. 1995 9780521243315, 0521243319-115160 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 07: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. Part 1. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 07: The Ming Dynasty 1368-1644. Part 1. Hardback Edited by Frederick W. Mote, Denis Twitchett 1008 pages, 1 table, 31 maps, 1 genealogical table, glossary- index, bibliography, Ming weights and measures, Genealogy of the Ming imperial family, Ming dynasty emperors 1988 9780521243322, 0521243327-100180 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 08: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. Part 2. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 08: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. Part 2. Hardback by Denis C. Twitchett, Frederick W. Mote 1232 pages, glossary-index, bibliography, genealogy of the Ming Imperial family, Ming dynasty emperors, Ming weights and measures a.s.o., and 20 line diagrams, 22 tables, 13 maps. 1998 9780521243339, 0521243335-110160 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 09: The Chíng Dynasty to 1800. Part 1. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 09: Part 1: The Chíng Dynasty to 1800. Hardback Willard J. Peterson 780 pages, with 3 line diagrams 12 tables 12 maps. 2003 9780521243346, 0521243343-90160 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 10: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911. Part I. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 10: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911. Part I. Hardback Edited by John K. Fairbank 725 pages, with 15 maps, glossary, index, bibliography, genealogical chart. 1978, 1995 9780521214476, 0521214475 -130185 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 11: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 2. Hardback.

Cambridge History of China: Volume 11: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 2. Hardback Edited by John K. Fairbank, Kwang-Ching Liu 784 pages, with 14 maps, glossary, index, bibliography. 1980 9780521220293, 0521220297-100180 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 12: Republican China 1912-1949 Part 1. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 12: Republican China 1912-1949 Part 1. Hardback Edited by John K. Fairbank, Denis Twitchett 1120 pages, 18 maps, 39 tables, bibliographical essays, bibliography, glossary-index. 1983 9780521235419, 0521235413-100180 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 13: Republican China 1912-1949 Part 2. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 13: Republican China 1912-1949 Part 2. Hardback Edited by John K. Fairbank, Albert Feuerwerker 1012 pages, with bibliography, glossary-index, 31 tables, 19 maps. 1986 9780521243384, 0521243386-100180 Click here for more product information

Cambridge History of China: Volume 14: The People's Republic, Part 1: The Emergence of Revulutionary China 1949 - 1965. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 14: The People's Republic, Part 1: The Emergence of Revulutionary China 1949 - 1965. Hardback Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, John K. Fairbank 739 pages. 1987 9780521243360, 052124336x-90160

Cambridge History of China: Volume 15: The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution 1966-1982. Hardback

Cambridge History of China: Volume 15: The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution 1966-1982. Hardback Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, John King Fairbank 1134 pages, with 38 tables 14 maps. 1991 9780521243377, 0521243378-101185 Click here for more product information

Carswell: Blue & White: Chinese Porcelain around the World. Hardback

Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain around the World. Hardback by John Carswell 208 pages, with 240 colour and 50 black-and-white illustrations. 2000. This book traces the history and evolution of blue and white in China, first during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), when the Mongols ruled all of Asia, creating an environment in which blue and white could travel swiftly as far as the Mediterranean. In the fifteenth century the Chinese became enamoured of their own product, while at the same time the Ming potters were susceptible to ideas from the Islamic world, and commercial and aesthetic pressures during the colonial period of European expansion. 071411491x

Catalogue Traditional Chinese Paintings. Cloth

Catalogue Traditional Chinese Paintings. Cloth. Ca. 27x37cm 45 plates with traditional chinese paintings. 28 plates with graphic paintings. 16 plates with oil paintings. 8 plates with watercolour gouache paintings. 10 plates with sculptures 1988. Many plates are, full-size, in colour. With biographies. Text generally in chinese Language. Titles of the Paintings and the Lists of them in both English and French Language 7102002300

Catalogue: Painting of Children at Play. Paperback

Painting of Children at Play. 21x30 cm. Paperback Catalogue of the exhibition of paintings of children playing. Text both in chinese and english language. 98 pages, 27 colour plates, many black-white illustrations 9575620224

Catalogue: Special Exhibition of Horse Paintings. Paperback

Special Exhibition of Horse Paintings. Paperback. Ca. 20x30 cm by Po-ting Lin and Hua-chih Chang. The National Palace Museum 120 pages, 65 color plates, including 55 works from the Museum collection, text in Chinese and English 9575620186

Ch'En: Chinese Primer Character Text: Text in simplified characters. Paperback

Chinese Primer: Character Text. Text in simplified characters. Paperback by Ch'En, Ta-Tuan / Link, Perry / Tai, Yih-Jian / Tang, Hai-Tao 132 pages. 1994 9780691036946, 0691036942-23

Chambers: Chinese New Year. A World of Festivals. Hardback

Chinese New Year. A World of Festivals. Hardback Catherine Chambers 30 pages, with a glossary and an index, many colour illustrations, for young readers 0237516721

Chang: The Rouge of the North. Paperback

Rouge of the North. Paperback by Eileen Chang  / Chang, Ai-Ling xxx, 185 pages. Relates the events in the life of a Chinese lower-class woman trapped within the confines of an unhappy arranged marriage, resulting in her gradual descent into madness. "Eileen Chang movingly evoles 20th-c. China and the hearts and minds of Chinese Women" 0520210875

Chau: Prize-Winning Stories from China 1980-1981. Paperback

Prize-Winning Stories from China 1980-1981. Paperback by Ke Yunlu, Zhang Xiangliang, and others. W.C.Chau, editor English text 437 pages, illustrated 0835113132

Chaves: Singing of the Source: Nature and God in the Poetry of the Chinese Painter Wu Li. Cloth

Singing of the Source: Nature and God in the Poetry of the Chinese Painter Wu Li. Cloth by Jonathan Chaves xiii, 209 pages, 4 pages with illustrations, with notes, bibliography and index, sample Chinese texts. 1993. A comprehensive presentation and study of the poetry of Wu Li (1632-1718), one of the orthodox masters of early Ch'ing-dynasty painting, with particular attention to the circumstances that led this Chinese scholar deeply immersed in Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism to convert to Christianity and then to compose Christian poetry in classical Chinese forms 0824814851

Chaves: The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry: Yüan, Ming, and Ch'ing Dynasties (1279 - 1911). Paperback

Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry: Yüan, Ming, and Ch'ing Dynasties (1279-1911). Paperback Translated and Edited by Jonathan Chaves xii, 481 pages, 10 leaves of plates, index. 1988. A representative sampling of works by the leading Chinese poets is acompanied by biographical sketches and a brief history of Chinese literature. See also Watson reduced price 9780231061490 0231061498

Chen Fengqi, Chen Youliang: China's Martial Arts: Yanqingquan, Lianshouquan, Taohuansan. Paperback

China's Martial Arts: Yanqingquan, Lianshouquan, Taohuansan. Paperback Chen Fengqi and Chen Youliang 324 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Yanqingquan (Mizongquan) of Hebei Province is one of the most popular ancient exercises in Northern China, and a main school of Wushu in the region 7505401262

Chen Youban: Essentials of Contemporary Chinese Acupuncturists'Clinical Experiences. Hardcover

Essentials of Contemporary Chinese Acupuncturists' Clinical Experiences. Hardcover. ca.19x26cm Chen Youban 640 pages, index, illustrated. first edition 1989 71190010425

Chen-Hua. In Search of the Dharma: Memoirs of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim. Cloth

In Search of the Dharma: Memoirs of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim. Cloth by Chen-hua xvii, 292 pages, with 9 figures, maps, glossary and index. 1992, 1994 817303923

Chen: Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement. Regional Leadership and Nation Building in Early Republican China. Hardcover

Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement. Regional Leadership and Nation Building in Early Republican China. Hardcover by Leslie Chen xx, 357 pages, with appendixes, glossary, reference list, index. 1999 0892641355

Chen: Six Contemporary Chinese Women Writers IV

Six Contemporary Chinese Women Writers IV Chen Meilan, preface 374 pages. 1995 0835131750

Cheng Dalin: Rare Pictures of the Great Wall. Cloth

Rare Pictures of the Great Wall. Cloth, ca. 26x36cm by Cheng Dalin 176 pages, with numerous colour photographs, made by Yan Zhongyi, Liu Shizhao, Cheng Dalin, Ren Guoen. (reduced price, it was 49.95, dustcover has wrinkled plastic coating) 7505401106

Cheng Naishan: The Blue House

Blue House By Cheng Naishan 400 pages. 1989. Stories of the present-day lives of the Shanghai capitalists 0835120651

Cheung.: The Isle Full of Noises. Modern Poetry from Taiwan. Hardcover

Isle Full of Noises. Modern Poetry from Taiwan Edited and translated by Dominic Cheung xii, 265 pages, with appendix: names and titles of poems in Chinese. 1987 0231064020